Emma was so excited to start Pre-school. Isaac went to Miss Karen too. The cool thing about that is that Miss Karen was my pre-school teacher too! She is great. Isaac started Kindergarten knowing how to read because of her. Isaac also couldn't wait to start school mostly because of the bus. So here he is striking a few poses before the bus comes. Ethan and I were his audience(not that he needs one) while he danced around letting loose of an energy that if they could just bottle we would never be tired again!

When school starts again I always have such mixed feelings. My kids get excited to go and so I am excited for them but I of course feel the sadness that they are one year older and how quickly time is passing. Here are my beautiful nephew and neice and my wonderful daughter Sadie on one of their first days of school.

In these pictures Ethan reminds me of that part in Superman when his parent wrap him up and put him in that pod as a baby to be sent to earth. So these are his baby superman pictures! Maybe I have an over active imagination but either way these turned out cute of Ethan.

Ethan and Joel swapped hats. Ethan's head is almost big enough! Also they say that sleep begets sleep. Emma and Ethan are like kittens when they sleep. They curl up around each other and as long as they are together like that they will sleep for a while. If one gets up, the other gets up to. Kind of funny.

Sadie's baptism was the same day as President Hinkley's funeral. It was a very special experience. Sadie's attitude towards things changed noticeably after her baptism. She reads the scriptures we got her on her own now and is much more of a peacemaker than she used to be. Joel and I are so proud of her choice to be baptised! We are lucky to have her in our family.

Sadie had her 8th birthday on Jan. 7th! She is such a big girl now!

For some reason my kids love to listen to this Cindy Lauper CD we have. Emma loves to dance with her daddy to the song "Time after Time". She will play it over and over until Joel is exhausted!

This was such a fun day! There was fresh snow from the night before and the weather stayed nice the whole time. The kids were exhausted by the time we were done. Joel had them digging caves and forts the whole time. We loved it!

I am still trying to bring my pictures up to date with present time. I left off with Zoo Lights before Christmas so here is Christmas morning! The biggest hit as far as toys went this year were these remote control helicopters. Isaac, Sadie, and especially Joel flew those things all around the house everyday of their vacation and then as soon as they got home from work or school. It was a fun season!

We went to Zoo Lights at the Point Defiance Zoo with Joel's sister Neeley and her family. It was very beautiful and very cold! The kids were troopers!

At Christmas time Joel's brother Tanner was around with his sweet wife Jessica, and their new baby girl Layla. I just think they are both such good Dad's. And my neice Layla is so beautiful just like a princess!

Ethan trying out being a pirate! Arrgh!

Another annual tradition is a visit to Snowshoe Evergreen Tree Farm for our Christmas Tree. We usually start the morning off at Cattin's with my brother Jeremy's family and my mom for breakfast then it is off to get our Christmas trees.

For Thanksgiving break the Olsens came up from Utah and we all went to the Children's Museum which was really fun. Here are just a few pictures of that great trip.

Here is Ethan! He is 6 months old now. He is a very sweet baby. He smiles alot and just has this happy spirit that we all enjoy to be around. Each of our children have been joyful blessings and Ethan just adds to our testimony of how glad we are that families are forever!

Since I just started this blog I wanted to share some pictures of recent seasons. This was our annual visit to Spooner's Farms for our pumpkins in October. We all love the Fall Season here it is so beautiful!

This is a hike we took last summer to sheep lake in Chinook pass. I was 36 weeks pregnant!